Misfortune Quotes
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus -
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates -
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
Ferdinand Marcos -
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Agathon -
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle -
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
Aristotle -
When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
Napoleon Hill -
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill -
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
Jacques Roumain -
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
Albert Einstein -
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Victor Hugo -
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
Scott Adams -
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
Napoleon Hill -
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
Seneca the Younger -
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
Pablo Picasso -
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides